It’s what’s inside that counts – such is true in the case of the new iPhone, the iPhone 4S.
Mossberg has been testing the 4S for about a week to see how it differs from the previous model. The standout feature, Mossberg reports, not available in other iPhones, or in any other phone I’ve seen, is Siri. It answers questions and provides information using natural language and an intelligent understanding, not just of words, but of context and colloquial phrasing.
Siri isn’t just a simple voice-command system. It understands a wide variety of ways to ask a question, grasps the context, and returns useful information in a friendly way, either audibly or by displaying results on the screen. It also learns your voice as it goes along.
Walt Mossberg gives his assessment and tests the personal assistant feature, Siri, live on today’s special edition of Digits: